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VIDEO Gorillaz and Madonna - 2006 Grammy Awards HD

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When Madonna first came out and walked behind the fake guitarist that really threw me... I had to take a second to process it.

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VIDEO Coldplay - "Strawberry Swing"

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A very similar style to the stop motion of "Her Morning Elegance."

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VIDEO Oren Lavie - "Her Morning Elegance"

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One of the most original stop motion music videos to date. Celebrating their Grammy nomination, the video was broken down to the original still frames, which are now exhibited online at www.hmegallery...

2 years ago

VIDEO Bright Eyes - "At The Bottom Of Everything"

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In this wonderfully bizarre video, passengers on a doomed flight chat, share cocktails and make out feverishly as the plane goes down.

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VIDEO Pearl Jam - "Jeremy"

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In Pellington's video, Jeremy is shown being taunted by classmates at school. The final scene of the video shows Jeremy as he takes a gun out of his pocket, puts the barrel of the gun in his mouth, cl...

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VIDEO Nirvana - "Smells Like Teen Spirit"

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The video was based on the concept of a school concert which ends in anarchy and riot. Cobain disliked Bayer's final edit and personally oversaw a re-edit of the video that resulted in the version fin...

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VIDEO Madonna - "Vogue"

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Filmed in black-and-white, the video recalls the look of 1930s Hollywood films with the use of artwork by the Art Deco artist Tamara de Lempicka and an Art Deco set design. Many of the scenes are recr...

2 years ago

VIDEO OK Go - "Here It Goes Again"

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The infamous, impressively choreographed and unforgettable treadmill dance that made OK Go a household name.

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VIDEO The Pharcyde - "Drop"

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So they're walking backwards but it was recorded forwards so it could be played backwards. No, wait, that bit where they jump means they must be walking backwards played forwards because HOLD PAUSE IT...

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VIDEO Beastie Boys – “Sabotage”

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Spike Jonze’s talent for restaging the pop-culture crap of his childhood found its best expression in this video, in which the Beastie Boys make like Starsky and Hutch. Directed by Spike Jonze, 1994.

2 years ago

VIDEO Queen - Bohemian Rhapsody [Live - High Definition]

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One of the most amazing concerts in history. Freddie Mercury at his best.

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VIDEO Video for Kwoon's - "I Lived On The Moon" by Yannick Puig

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It's a sad story, but with enough hope to really grip you, and beautifully animated.

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VIDEO Nirvana - "Heart Shaped Box"

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The final video of Nirvana’s active career and certainly the most affecting, brazenly mixing the tragic (crucifixes, dead fetuses), comic (Cobain’s pratfall, the mimicking crows), and plainly bizarre ...

2 years ago

VIDEO Franz Ferdinand - "Take Me Out"

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In the exceptionally inventive video for this epic, early-aughties dancepunk anthem, the members of Franz Ferdianand look like surreal gear-cranked cyborgs who’ve crawled inside Leonardo Da Vinci’s sk...

2 years ago

VIDEO Jamiroquai - "Virtual Insanity"

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The floor appears to move while the rest of the room stays still, allowing for Kay to perform moves not normally seen in music videos. At some points the camera tilts up or down to show the floor or c...

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VIDEO Aerosmith & Run-D.M.C.- "Walk This Way"

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The 1986 music video for "Walk This Way" symbolically placed a rock band (assumed to be Aerosmith) and Run-D.M.C. in a musical duel in neighboring studios before Tyler literally breaks through the wal...

2 years ago

VIDEO Michael Jackson - "Beat It"

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The short film for "Beat It", directed by Bob Giraldi helped establish Jackson as an international pop icon. Both "Beat It" and Thriller are notable for their "mass choreography" of synchronized dance...

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VIDEO Weezer - "Buddy Holly"

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Who better than the 70s to do the 50s? The 90s, of course. Utilizing the speed dial of David Geffen, Weezer got the permission of the whole Happy Days gang—plus the voice of Al Molinaro (who does a sh...

2 years ago

The Chemical Brothers - "Star Guitar"

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Director Michel Gondry took one of the oldest music clichés and wrote a symphony. He works with the gimmick of syncing supposedly candid moments of street life and the countryside to the music’s beat,...

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VIDEO Bjork – “All Is Full of Love”

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With robots borne straight from Asimov’s own waking dreams, director Chris Cunningham, using little more than shadows and shades of whites and blacks and silvers, crafts an authentic and pure sensuali...

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VIDEO Michael Jackson - "Smooth Criminal" [Moonwalker Cut]

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The ten minute long "Smooth Criminal" clip is reminiscent of the musical number known as "The Girl Hunt Ballet" which is featured as the final number in the 1952 musical film The Band Wagon starring F...

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VIDEO "Can't Tell Me Nothing" with Zach Galifianakis

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This is not going to make any of the "decade lists," however, I love the parody and think it's absolutely hilarious. Hopefully you will too.

2 years ago

VIDEO Sigur Ros – “Vidrar Vel Til Loftarasa”

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Gorgeously shot Icelandic scenery and children are present and correct, of course. This time though, what magic and hope there is in their world is stamped out as the video proceeds as slowly but inex...

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VIDEO Korn - "Freak On A Leash"

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The video features a group of children tresspassing to a cliff to play hopscotch. A security guard notices this and accidentally trips on his way to the cliff and fires his gun. Upon inspection, the b...

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VIDEO NIN - Closer (Uncut) [1994]

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VIDEO Queen - "Bohemian Rhapsody"

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Though some artists had made video clips to accompany songs it wasn't until after the success of "Bohemian Rhapsody" that it became regular practice for record companies to produce promo videos for ar...

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VIDEO The White Stripes - "The Denial Twist"

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Michel Gondry grabs hold of the Late Night with Conan O'Brien set and dives straight down the rabbit hole, emerging in some weird wonderland filled with intriguing optical illusions.

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VIDEO Foo Fighters - "Everlong"

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Many of the video’s highlights were the results of the Foo Fighters’ expressed desire not to seem sexist or philanderous. Michel Gondry uses the images in the video to craft the persona the Foo Fighte...

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VIDEO Peter Gabriel - "Sledgehammer"

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Simply put, a work of absolute, cheeky genius. There’s a sense of childlike playfulness throughout, from the opening shots of blood pumping along to the music to the literal manifestations of the coun...

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VIDEO A-Ha - "Take On Me"

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The life-into-animati... analogy and windswept 80's pencil drawings may have aged, but the neo-classical sentiments enshrined in "Take on Me" remain as a virtual bible of the video age. Directed by St...

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We have democratically selected our humble and largely unofficial picks for the best videos ever made and are presenting them here for your viewing pleasure. The following 'best music videos ever' have been sourced from a number of lists, most notably Stylus Magazine, Pitchfork.com and Paste Magazine.

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